Agnes Freda Forres Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lady Forres
Birth Name:Agnes Freda Herschell
Birth Date:9 October 1881
Birth Place:Weybridge, Surrey
Death Place:Green Park, London
Nationality:British
Known For:Sculpture

Agnes Freda Forres, Baroness Forres (Herschell; 9 October 1881 – 5 May 1942) was a British artist known for her sculpture work in bronze and plaster.

Biography

Forres was born in Weybridge in Surrey.[1] She was the daughter of Lord Herschell, the British Solicitor-General and later Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and appears to have been educated abroad.[2] In 1912 she married Sir Archibald Williamson, a politician and businessman who became Lord Forres.[2] During the 1920s Agnes Forres spent three years in the studio of the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, first as a pupil and then as a studio assistant.[2] In 1926 Forres exhibited a bronze bust portrait at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris and showed a plaster work there the following year.[3] Between 1926 and 1938 Forres exhibited five works at the Royal Academy in London.[2] [1]

In 1930 Forres commissioned a relief sculpture, The Mocking Birds, from Jagger for her home in London and helped to organise his memorial exhibition in 1935.[2] During World War II, Forres worked on a number of relief committees but died in May 1942 when she fell under a train at Green Park tube station in central London.[2]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: James Mackay. Antique Collectors' Club. 1977. The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze . 0902028553.
  2. Web site: University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII. Lady (Agnes) Freda Forres OBE . 2011. 27 March 2020. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951.
  3. Book: Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 5 Dyck-Gemignani. 2-7000-3075-3.